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Like a Dandelion in the Wind
Like a Dandelion in the Wind
Like a Dandelion in the Wind
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Andrea endured many hardships in her life while travelling around Australia with her lovable rascal of a father. She was taught cunningness, survival, love, gambling, hunting and fishing, unlike any education you get from sitting in a classroom. Taken out of school at 13, married at 16 and a mother at 17. War and the traumatic birth of her secon

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PublisherAndrea Johns
Release dateJun 2, 2021
ISBN9781922629098
Like a Dandelion in the Wind
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Andrea Johns

I am a wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and now an author at 72. I say to everyone "Never give up on your dreams"Like a dandelion in the wind is a true-life story...my story!My story starts with my ill-fated grandmother, my long-suffering very religious mother, my ratbag of a father, right through to my adulthood and all my adventures in between. Even though I was taken out of school just before I turned 13 and changed so many schools that I lost count after the eighth one, I never gave up. I started to jot down my memories in little notepads over 30 years ago and now they are in a beautiful two-part book. Dreams do happen <3

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